Details :- LW116
was hit by flak at 16,000ft catching the Port Inner engine alight and then
the wing, LW116 crashed 5km East of Frevent, Pas de Calais, France at 15:00.
S/L
J F McMullan had already completed 15 Operations with Wellington aircraft
as well as having completed 13 Operations with the Halifax, Siracourt being
his 29th Operation.
With thanks
to Alain Delattre for corrected information.
On
the left is the memorial to the crew that died aboard LW116 near the crash
site.
On the right
is the crash site location with the memorial at the road side.
click
on either picture for larger view.
Pictures
are courtesy of Alain Delattre.
Those
who died are buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery at Wimille, France.
Sgt
Kent - PoW number is 270 in Stalag Luft Bankau-Kreulberg.
Picture
of W/O T Harrison, W/O C A Jones, W/O H W Sedgwick and F/O N E Bowman
courtesy of Australian War Memorial.
Picture
of Sgt G E Kent kindly supplied by his daughter Patricia Mason.
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